Dream House

This will be an ongoing post of things I want in a dream house. I will add to it every once in a while.

I want a wall that is covered/wallpapered with light-colored maps, preferably in the mudroom that will connect the garage and the kitchen

I love brick or stone exteriors, especially with a creeping vine growing up them

Open floor plans are nice

I'd like a huge circular table for normal meals and entertaining (8 people around). Maybe a small barstool, high table for more intimate or for quick meals. The round table will be designed like a Sticks kitchen table (wise sayings carved into the border, a simplistic scene of houses and nature carved onto the inner part, perhaps a lazy Susan in the middle. The table would be in a round bay window area with a semi-circle bench on the window side.

I want a long, Pullman kitchen. Preferably of light color with a nice view.

I love windows, but I also want walls on which I can decorate. I always thought it would be neat to have the living room on the first floor and have a simple catwalk/balcony along its perimeter on the second floor (great for parties and entertaining).

I would like the master bedroom to be downstairs and the kids' bedrooms upstairs, but I do not want to hear the kids' noisy sleepovers and such while I sleep, so I do not want the master bedroom right next to the living room.

A secret room would be sooo sweet, but not absolutely necessary.

A garage apartment or a basement apartment that is accessible from the outside, if I ever wanted to rent it out or provide housing for someone.

Adequate land around the house.

One of those vine covered trellis walkways from the garage to the house or the house to the summer kitchen (down by the lake?)

A summer porch, on the second story, with a hammock or a bed

An outdoor shower so I can see the stars

In the indoor shower, I want to have a glass ceiling that is also raised a few inches above the rest of the ceiling so that it's like placing a bottomless, short glass box on top of the shower. It would provide the illusion of an outdoor shower.